Duality and how to solve it

Black or white?
Yes or no?
Give or get?
Transform reality or adapt to it?
In or out?
Speak or listen?
Male or female?
Rational or irrational?
Left or right?
Chaos or order?
Rules or no rules?
Body or spirit?
Yin or Yang?
Left side or right side of the brain?
Imagination and intuition or rationality and logic?
Active or passive?
Observe life or be an active part of it?

Is there a problem to solve?
Is there a dilemma here?
Is there a contradiction?
Any incompatibilities here?

Manula
Black or white?
Yes or no?
Give or get?
Transform reality or adapt to it?
In or out?
Speak or listen?
Male or female?
Rational or irrational?
Left or right?
Chaos or order?
Rules or no rules?
Body or spirit?
Yin or Yang?
Left side or right side of the brain?
Imagination and intuition or rationality and logic?
Active or passive?
Observe life or be an active part of it?

Is there a problem to solve?
Is there a dilemma here?
Is there a contradiction?
Any incompatibilities here?

And anyway. What's with this holding out a carrot, dangling a teaser. Are you trying to get people here to think?
You toss out an ancient puzzle, attempted by minds great and small throughout our history and you intimate that you have a solution and then you
don't present it for us to ponder? You wait, as if thousands of years of philosophy hasn't already weighted in on all aspects of this question? And
then you want us to wait even longer?????

OH, How about this one. Ancient minds were just dribbling along with the breeze. Then along comes Aristotle who set up the either or meme and people
were just sucked into it like a vortex in the ocean and have not been able to break free of it for thousands of years.

And, now that there is a below as there wasn't earlier, I guess it's time for you to chime back in and resolve this dilemma for us.

I love this topic. I think we have to learn how to flow with life. There are times for everything. There is wisdom if you know what to think, what to
say and what to do, in every given moment. Most of the times there isn't a yes or no answer, there is diversity and we must learn how to live with
it.

But people tend to see one-fits-all answers like, like to be happy just adapt to what is, don't try to change anything, just observe, accept and
adapt.
In this example, there is a passive dogma, which is not realistic because there are times to be passive and adapt and times to be active and
transform.

TerryMcGuire
OH, How about this one. Ancient minds were just dribbling along with the breeze. Then along comes Aristotle who set up the either or meme and people
were just sucked into it like a vortex in the ocean and have not been able to break free of it for thousands of years.

And, now that there is a below as there wasn't earlier, I guess it's time for you to chime back in and resolve this dilemma for us.

Yes Manula. I do it on purpose. But maybe not funny. Just whimsical. This question of "either or" is one that permeates Western Civilization. It has
set up the thinking of western man for a long time. "Right or Wrong". Good, or evil.
And the best one of all, one which has enslaved generation after generation of people,,,,,,,HEAVEN??????? or HELL???????

What a prison this simple issue has created for us. So you see, I laugh in it's face.

Manula
But people tend to see one-fits-all answers like, like to be happy just adapt to what is, don't try to change anything, just observe, accept and
adapt.
In this example, there is a passive dogma, which is not realistic because there are times to be passive and adapt and times to be active and
transform.

If there is passivity then that is what is. If there is aggression then that is what is. It is not that one chooses passivity or aggression or
assertiveness - what happens is what is.
'What is' IS - it can be anything and is everything. However, naming it can make for an opposite to appear in mind - passivity, aggression which ever
- is neither right nor wrong, good or bad - it just is.
The wanting it to be the other than what is conflicts and stops peace. If wanting other than what is happens then that is also 'what is'.

Manula
Black or white? - gray
Yes or no? - maybe
Give or get? - share
Transform reality or adapt to it? - go with the flow
In or out? - between
Speak or listen? - join the choir and sing
Male or female? - hermaphrodite (haven't you seen South Park?)
Rational or irrational? - genius
Left or right? - or up, down, back, front and center
Chaos or order? - creation
Rules or no rules? - directives
Body or spirit? - a reflection, not a duality
Yin or Yang? - balance
Left side or right side of the brain? - the gap
Imagination and intuition or rationality and logic? - art
Active or passive? - collaborate
Observe life or be an active part of it? - see last answer

Is there a problem to solve? - if you find one
Is there a dilemma here? - only if there are at least 3 crises
Is there a contradiction? - not really
Any incompatibilities here? - it might look that way

Whats your take on this? - questions are fun?

I will not give my answer here, i rather do it in a post bellow.

Thank you for your answer.

edit on 4-2-2014 by Manula because: (no reason given)

Answers above, in [b/i]. As above, so below, I'm just being whimsical too. I like answering questions, it's not much fun answering my own and you
don't get many math tests as an adult, so...

Side note: If the answer sounds strange, it's probably a pop culture reference. Good luck with that.

So are you saying that the either or meme is a faulty meme? That there is a continuum of possibility between the two seemingly opposed poles?

YES! My sleep-deprived brain just plucked this poem out of the collective just for you! (Even tho you weren't replying to me. Sorry bout that
part.)
For whom the bell tolls
To which the wind blows
Vibrational swirling harmonic tones
Blurring the blend of the two atoned
Whence entropy births the eternal one

Please pick a Title. I think you are supposed to:
Organic Dance of the Pendulum
or
Pendulum Playground
or
Infinite Doth The Pendulum Swing
or
Order of the Chaos of One

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